VCE English Language

• Children using 'textisms' in school work
• Are texting and tweeting making our students bad writers?
• Will texting destroy writing skills?
• G'day or not g'day. It's a question of hanging on to our lingusitc identity
• The internet to transform spelling
• 40 everyday phrases we owe to Shakespeare
• Do we really need the apostrophe?
• Linguists identify words that have changed little in 15,000 years
• Council considers ban on apostrophes in street signs and UK council rules that apostrophe must be left alone, full stop.
• Does texting hurt your grammar?
• Grammar nerds take on Twitter 'natives'
• Professors says teen social media lingo hurts language
• Texting doesn't hurt writing skills says students and professors
• Texting does/doesn't* affect kids' language skills - *delete where appropriate
• Are Digital Media Changing Language?
• Macquarie Dictionary: Dictionary of English as it is spoken in Australia. (Log in with your SLV card.)

Sentences - Taylor Mali


The History of English in 10 minutes


21 Accents



David Crystal on It's Only a Theory, defending the proposition that texting is good for the English language.



David Crystal on English Idioms by Shakespeare



David Crystal on How is the internet changing language today?



David Crystal on Texts and Tweets: Myths and Realities




David Crystal on Should English Be Taught as a Global Language



David Crystal on Which 'English' should we teach our students?



Deb Roy on the Birth of a Word



Erin McKean on Redefining the Dictionary



History of English



Rives: A 3 Minute Story of Mixed Emoticons



Ronnie Corbert on My Blackberry is not Working




The Two Ronnies on Fork Handles



The Two Ronnies FUNEX



World of English Part 1: The Rise of English
World of English Part 2: The Future of English
World of English Part 3: A Global Language

• Diversity? We ain’t seen nothing yet! David Crystal Paper to the FIPLV Conference on Diversity in Language Learning and Teaching,Göteborg, 2000
• Eats, shoots and leaves by Lynn Truss
• From Statistical Panic to Moral Panic: The Metadiscursive Construction and Popular Exaggeration of New Media Language in the Print Media
• In Danger - The English Language
• Officials: Students Can use Text Speak on Tests
• Victorian Poets Used Texting Lingo